"When we have lost everything, including hope,..." - Quote by W C Fields

“Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!”

“Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night”

“A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.”

“The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.”

“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”

“Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?”

“And maybe, just maybe, it will.”

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”

“There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.”